24 Apr Lordship Title of Compton ID14218
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In 1086 King William held the manor of Nachededorne, assessed at 20 hides, formerly held in alod of King Edward by Edric. No further reference to this manor under its early name has been found, and there seems to be little doubt that it was amalgamated with the manor of COMPTON, formerly held by Edward the Confessor and included in the Terra Regis at the date of the Domesday Survey. The whole estate apparently remained with the Crown until the reign of Henry II, who made a grant of Compton to Gilbert de Crispin, whose son Gilbert de Tillers paid a relief of 100s. to Richard I in 1194. The manor was held of the king in chief by knight service. After the death of Gilbert de Tillers the manor or a moiety of it passed to Joan, one of his daughters and wife of Thomas Malesmains. Apparently Malesmains forfeited as a Norman, and the manor was acquired by Ralph Gernon about 1204. In 1216 Thomas and Joan obtained possession again, but in 1219 Joan quitclaimed her right in a moiety of the manor to Ralph Gernon, in confirmation apparently of an earlier grant to Ralph by Thomas and Joan. Ralph enfeoffed William Gernon, who is returned as sharing 4 librates of land of the inheritance of Gilbert de Tillers with the Prioress of Kington. A life interest in a part at least seems to have been reserved, and this apparently went to the king on the death of Joan, who restored it in 1233 to Ralph Gernon. In 1276 Thomas de Clare (who had apparently succeeded by grant from the Gernons) exchanged the manor with Robert de Mucegros, for which purpose he surrendered it to the king. At Robert's death in 1280 it was assigned in dower to his wife Agnes and ultimately passed to Avice daughter and heir of Robert, who married first John de Ferrers and then John de Bures. She was sued in 1336 for land in Compton by Margaret de Stoke, the granddaughter and heiress of Arnulph Gernon, but the result is not known.
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